I recently downloaded and installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.3 UEK under VMWare. Networking locally appears fine and I can ping oracle.com and google.com with no problem. nslookup works fine as well. I cannot, however, connect to 'public-yum.oracle.com' in order to get yum updates.

I then opened up a command prompt under Windows and tried to connect outside of VMWare to see if that worked. It did not. I can also ping oracle.com but not public-yum.oracle.com. It says "request timed out". Pinging and nslookkup shows the IP Address to be 141.146.44.34, yet even pinging that IP address gets a timeout error.

If I use Internet Explorer and type in http://141.146.44.34 it goes to the proper webpages.

Any ideas on what I need to do in order to get my command prompt and VMWare to work so I can get updates from public-yum.oracle.com??

I'm sure it's something simple but checking googe searches and this forum has not been successful after many hours of searching.

Can you get to http://public-yum.oracle.com from your Windows desktop? If so, there is something wrong with the networking inside your VMware guest. Can you ping anything from inside the Oracle Linux guest?

That's when I get my timeout error and says it's checking the mirror site.

If I had it working I could cut and paste the error.

I may just try to figure out how to create a repo dir from my Linux DVD and use that.

It's a brand new install so cannot figure out what is giong wrong. Again it's weird how I cannot find "wget" anywhere, but checking the website my .repo file looks just like on the Oracle web site address given in the "wget" command line.

You should be able to take a screenshot and put that online somewhere?

It's a brand new install so cannot figure out what is giong wrong. Again it's weird how I cannot find "wget" anywhere, but checking the website my .repo file looks just like on the Oracle web site address given in the "wget" command line.

If you did a minimal install, wget is not installed by default. It's only installed with a Basic Server install (or greater).

I'm grabbing at straws now, but could it have anything to do with me installing a 32-bit EL onto my 64-bit machine? Is somehow the public-yum webstie getting confused? It looks like it's going to the "i386" webpage like it should.

I'd love to know how to get various options for installing OEL 6.3. It only seems like I have a few options when I load the disc so I choose the top one (install or upgrade) and then unlike previous versions 5.x and below, their doesn't seem to be any way for me to select GUI installation nor optional packages to install.

If it did, I wouldn't be worried about using YUM in the first place.

I just want a GUI desktop (GNOME) when I boot.

Any thoughts on how to create a GUI install, install with desktop or optional packages that can be added during initial install would be very helpful and then I can forget about getting yum to work.

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I'd love to know how to get various options for installing OEL 6.3. It only seems like I have a few options when I load the disc so I choose the top one (install or upgrade) and then unlike previous versions 5.x and below, their doesn't seem to be any way for me to select GUI installation nor optional packages to install.

You can customise the install of OL6 during the graphical part of the installation. After you configure your disk layout, you are prompted with the software set selection. The default is "Basic Server", but you can change that to Desktop or Software Development Workstation. Both of those will install the GUI for you. None of the Server options install a GUI.